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forms two or three days, the shoes are cut 

 open on the top, allowing the last to slip out. 

 They are then tied together, ready for the 

 market. There pedlars and Jews trade for 

 them with merchants, who have them stuffed 

 with straw, and packed in boxes to export. 

 In the same manner any shape may be 

 manufactured. 



Thus toys are made of clay forms. After 

 drying, the clay is broken and extracted. 

 Bottles, &c, are made in the same way. 

 According as the gum grows older, it be- 

 comes darker in color and more tough. 

 The number of caoutchouc trees in the pro- 

 vince is countless. In some parts whole 

 forests exist, and they are frequently cut 

 down for firewood. Although the trees 

 exist in Mexico and the East Indies, there 

 appears to be no importation into this 

 country from these places. The reason, we 

 suppose, must be the want of that fruitful- 

 ness which is found in them here. The 

 caoutchouc tree may be worked all the 

 year ; but generally, in the wet season, they 

 have rest, owing to the flooded state of the 

 woods ; and the milk being watery, requires 

 more trouble to manufacture the same 

 article than in the dry season. 



SELECT POETRY. 

 A HEART TO DISPOSE OF. 



BY A NEGLECTED ONE. 



Oh, let me give my heart away, 



I've lived too long alone; 

 Until my spirit, once so gay, 



Hath dull and joyless grown. 

 The smile hath faded from my cheek, 



The fount of Hope is dry, 

 I scarcely have the heart to speak, — 



Then love me, or I die ! 



I've lived a hermit life too long 



'Mid fields and lonely trees, 

 My only thoughts a changing thro g 



Of aimless fantasies. 

 But weary of these wanderings vain, 



For human things I sigh; 

 Oh give me to my kind again, 



And lore me, or I die ! 



I'll be the slave to watch your rest, 



To work your will by day, 

 And every scarcely-looked behest 



With thankful haste obey, 

 If to my suit, ac last you'll make 



One sign of kind reply : 

 Then hear me, for sweet pity's sake, 



And love me, or I die ! 



Pride and Affectation. — Pride destroys all 

 symmetry and grace ; and Affectation is a more 

 terrible enemy to fine faces than the small pox. 



ORIGINAL POETRY. 



LONG LOOKED FOE, COME AT LAST. 



BY HELEN HETHERINGTON. 



Lovely Summer! sweet enchantress ! 



Long our hearts have yearn'd for thee; 

 Breathing joy, diffusing gladness, 



With thy smile so blithe and free. 

 Waft a fragrance on our posies, 



Nature will her work resume; 

 Let thy lips but kiss the roses, 



To restore their sweet perfume ! 



Lovely Summer! sweetest season! 



Be with us where'er we rove ; 

 Hear the voice of Truth and Reason 



Breathe the fondest vows of love. 



We will not with doubts distress thee, 

 Or with murmurings give thee pain ; 



Smile on those who live to bless thee, 

 Charming Summer, smile again! 



Warbling songsters, with what anguish 

 Have ye borne the cheerless past! 



Seen your little children languish, 

 Shivering in the bitter blast ! 



List to me, ye pretty creatures, 

 Summer will your rights restore; 



Well you know her happy features, 

 She has charm'd your hearts before. 



Lovely Summer! do not leave us 

 Till thy glorious work is done; 



We will love thee, believe us, 

 Trust us, gentlest, fairest one! 



EVIL COMPANY. 



The following beautiful allegory is translated 

 from the German: — Sophronius, a wise teacher, 

 would not suffer even his grown-up son and 

 daughters to associate with those whose conduct 

 was not pure and upright. " Dear father," said 

 the gentle Eulalia to him one day, when he 

 forbade her, in company with her brother, to 

 visit the volatile Lucinda: "Dear father, you 

 must think us very childish if you imagine we 

 could be exposed to danger by it." The father 

 took in silence a dead coal from the hearth, and 

 reached it to his daughter. " It will not burn 

 you, my child; take it." Eulalia did so, and 

 behold her beautiful white hand was soiled and 

 blackened, and, as it chanced, her white dress 

 also. " We cannot be too careful in handling 

 coals," said Eulalia, in vexation. "Yes, truly," 

 said the father; "you see, my child, that coals, 

 even if they do not burn, blacken; so it is with 

 the company of the vicious." 



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